Odenkirchen nr. Mönchengladbach

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animal - mammal - lion - passant - 4?
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2015 by Käthe u. Bernd Limburg [http://www.limburg-bernd.de/Kirchen und Kapellen in Moenchengladbach/Bilder Kirchen/Odenkirchen, Kirche St. Laurentius Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2022]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 5
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Käthe u. Bernd Limburg, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2015 by Käthe u. Bernd Limburg [http://www.limburg-bernd.de/Kirchen und Kapellen in Moenchengladbach/Bilder Kirchen/Odenkirchen, Kirche St. Laurentius Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2022]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: the whole base is probably modern
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2015 by Käthe u. Bernd Limburg [http://www.limburg-bernd.de/Kirchen und Kapellen in Moenchengladbach/Bilder Kirchen/Odenkirchen, Kirche St. Laurentius Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2022]
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human figure - head - 4
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2015 by Käthe u. Bernd Limburg [http://www.limburg-bernd.de/Kirchen und Kapellen in Moenchengladbach/Bilder Kirchen/Odenkirchen, Kirche St. Laurentius Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2022]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Laurentius (Odenkirchen)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris06, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 24 March 2017 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Laurentius_(Odenkirchen)_(10).jpg] [accessed 20 February 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche St. Laurentius in Odenkirchen"
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Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Käthe u. Bernd Limburg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odenkirchen,_Kirche_St._Laurentius_Gesamtansicht.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2022]
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view of church interior - west end
Scene Description: Source caption: Kirche St. Laurentius in Odenkirchen"
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Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Käthe u. Bernd Limburg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odenkirchen,_Kirche_St._Laurentius_Orgel.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2022]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration [source unknown] in [https://www.odenkirchen.de/fileadmin/webseitenbilder/odenkirchen/Geschichte/zeittafel/Odenkirchen-Zeittafel_2014.pdf] [accessed 20 February 2022]
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view of font - west side
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the medieval font at the west end of the nave of the 19thC church
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2015 by Käthe u. Bernd Limburg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odenkirchen,_Kirche_St._Laurentius_Orgel.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2022]
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view of font in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Käthe u. Bernd Limburg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Käthe u. Bernd Limburg [http://www.limburg-bernd.de/Kirchen und Kapellen in Moenchengladbach/Bilder Kirchen/Odenkirchen, Kirche St. Laurentius Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23768ODE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche Sankt Laurentius
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Laurentiuspl. 9, 41199 Mönchengladbach, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2166 9649511
Country Name: Germany
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road 59, 6-8 km S of Mönchengladbach city centre, 35-40 km WSW of Düsseldorf
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: medieval church demolished; present church 1889-1891; renovated 1986-2000
Font Notes:
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Nadine Fischer [https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/moenchengladbach/schatzkaestchen-st-laurentius_aid-13416605] [accessed 20 February 2022] writes about a tour of Sankt Laurentius church with Thomas Boldt, former parish council spokesman; among the treasures noted by Boldt is the medieval baptismal font made of blue Namur limestone between the years 1000 and 1200; it had been discarded, used as a farm trough and broken up; it was later restored and installed in the new church [="Erhalten blieb der alte Taufbrunnen, entstanden zwischen 1000 und 1200. Er wurde restauriert und kann in der Krypta der neuen Kirche besichtigt werden. Das vermutlich etwa 1000 Jahre alte Taufbecken aus Namurer Marmor, das zwischenzeitlich als Viehtränke und Blumenkübel diente. "Das älteste und wertvollste Stück ist der Taufstein", erzählt Boldt. Nach dem Abriss der ersten Kirche, in der er stand, habe er als Tränke gedient. Man fand ihn beim Abriss einiger alter Häuser in der Nähe der Kirche in mehrere Teile zerbrochen in einem Stall wieder. Dechant von-der-Helm habe ihn flicken lassen und als Blumenkübel vor die Kirche gestellt, doch er verfiel weiter. Pastor Franz Rixen habe ihn von Künstler Heinz Jordans als Taufstein restaurieren lassen."] The font is located at present [February 2022] at the west end of the nave inside the 19th-century church; it consists of the original basin a typical Mosan font that had been broken up and later restored [cf. supra]; it has four human heads set at 90-degree angles of the round tapering basin, passant lions with curling tails on the panels between the heads; the base is a cluster of a broad central shaft and four outer colonnettes all of which have moulded capitals and bases; lower base of a matching design, all of it a modern replacement. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.131952, 6.449467
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 7′ 55.03″ N, 6° 26′ 58.08″ E
UTM: 32U 321551 5667592
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Namur)
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round